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Robert Andrews Millikan
1868-1953
American Physicist
Robert Andrews Millikan, in his famous oildrop experiment of 1910, measured the charge of the electron. In another important experiment, he verifie...
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Robert A. Millikan vaulted from obscurity to international fame on the strength of his classic experiment designed to measure the charge on the electron. His "oil-drop" method for determining the elec...
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Robert A. Millikan vaulted from obscurity to international fame on the strength of his classic experiment designed to measure the charge on the electron. His "oil-drop" method for determining the elec...
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The American physicist Robert Andrews Millikan (1868-1953) measured the charge of the electron, proved the validity of Albert Einstein's photoelectric effect equation, and carried out pioneering cosmi...
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Millikan was born in Morrison, Illinois, on March 22, 1868. He grew up in a number of communities in the Mississippi River region, leading a largely rural life. At the age of fourteen, he took a job i...
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